I'm scared of the budget!

[datasuspect]

how do they spend money that doesn't exist?

i do this and i get prosecuted for hot checks.

[unblock]

1. they don't spend money that doesn't exist; they borrow it

you, too, can increase your debt load by half a trillion dollars a year if you have the authority to tax the world's biggest economy.

for a while, anyway, until the lenders realize that the powers that be have no intention of ever paying it back....

[Wcross]

2. What is this "budget" you speak of?

All I see is a spending plan, no budgeting involved at all.

[miss_kitty]

3. those "borrow and Spend' Thugs always berating the 'Tax and Spend'

Dems. At least the Dems have a PLAN for income.